Rasputin And Alexei

Author : Greer Firestone
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1462675034

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Rasputin and Alexei by Greer Firestone Pdf

The world has long been fascinated by the compelling characters and cataclysmic events surrounding the end of the 300 year Romanov dynasty. Alexei carried on his small frame two impossible burdens-heir and hemophiliac. The curse of hemophilia-"The Royal Disease"-the greatest secret of the age The mystical Rasputin-the peasant holy man with the phospherescent eyes-and his mesmerizing influence on the teenage tsarevich. Only Father Gregori could staunch the flow of blood during an attack The four precious Romanov daughters, OTMA: Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia and their cruel fate WWI, Lenin and the Communist Revolution of 1917 Rasputin and Alexei gives a face and a soul to the teenage Alexei. Taken from first person accounts, Rasputin and Alexei is a novel about a boy whose murder (and that of his family) changed the world.

Author : Julia P Gelardi
Publisher : Julia Gelardi
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733528423

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A Guarded Secret by Julia P Gelardi Pdf

In the summer of 1904 as Russia was convulsed in the Russo-Japanese War, an event of great joy occurred when a baby boy was born to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. After the arrival four daughters, the longed-for male heir to the Romanov dynasty, Tsarevich Alexei, had completed the family of Nicholas and Alexandra. The happiness of the imperial couple was soon dashed, however, by the tragic news that their only son and heir was afflicted with the painful and often fatal, bleeding disease, hemophilia. The ill-health of the heir to the throne was a well-guarded secret that cast a deep shadow over the final years of imperial Russia. Here is the dramatic story of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra during those years as they struggled to deal with their son's infirmity which brought the controversial Rasputin into the imperial court. Follow their story from the joyful day of Tsarevich Alexei's birth in 1904 to its moving and dramatic denouement.

Author : Best of Broadway Productions,Greer Firestone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615232442

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ALEXEI and RASPUTIN by Best of Broadway Productions,Greer Firestone Pdf

Taken from first-person historical accounts, this work focuses on the boy whose murder changed the course of the world. Due to the unearthing of the tsarevich's remains in 2007, there is renewed interest in the Romanov dynasty and Rasputin.

Author : Greer Firestone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798989664504

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Alexei and the Mad Monk Rasputin by Greer Firestone Pdf

The world has long been fascinated with the compelling characters and cataclysmic events surrounding the end of the 300-year Romanov dynasty of Russia: -The mystical (and some say mythical) Grigori Rasputin and his influence on the teenaged Alexei, the heir -The four lovely Romanov daughters (OTMA): Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia) -World War I and the Communist Revolution of 1917 Few books have touched on what was the greatest secret of the age: Tsarevich Alexei's curse of hemophilia, "The Royal Disease." Entwined in this tale of incalculable wealth and global dominance is the enigmatic and magnetic Gregori Rasputin - peasant and holy man. Medical doctors could not help Alexei. Only Rasputin had the power to stop the flow of blood through his brittle veins. Was he saint or sinner? Alexei and the Mad Monk Rasputin gives a face, a personality, and a soul . . . to the boy who carried on his small frame two impossible burdens - heir and hemophiliac. Taken from first person historical accounts, this is a novel about the boy whose murder changed the course of history.

Author : Staton Rabin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781442407268

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The Curse of the Romanovs by Staton Rabin Pdf

Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger. It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers from a terrible bleeding disease, hemophilia, which threatens to finish him off even before the family¹s enemies can. The only person able to help Alexei is the evil and powerful religious mystic Rasputin -- and now Rasputin is trying to kill him too! Desperate, Alexei flees through time to New York City in 2010, using a method taught to him by the mad monk himself. In New York, Alexei meets smart and sassy Varda Rosenberg, and discovers she is a distant cousin. Varda is working on a gene therapy cure for hemophilia, as the disease still runs in the family. When Alexei learns that history shows that his entire family will be assassinated in 1918, he and Varda travel back in time to the Russian Revolution, with Rasputin hot on their heels. Will they be able to rescue Alexei¹s family before it¹s too late? Staton Rabin lets Alexei tell his own riveting story in a rousing adventure with stunning surprises -- a movingly authentic look at royalty and revolution in the days of the tsars.

Author : Вадим Вадимович Петров,Igor Lysenko,Георгий Борисович Егоров
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015045692152

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The Escape of Alexei, Son of Tsar Nicholas II by Вадим Вадимович Петров,Igor Lysenko,Георгий Борисович Егоров Pdf

Evidence that Alexei survived the execution of his family and became a geography teacher named Vasily Filatov.

Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374711238

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Rasputin by Douglas Smith Pdf

On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.

Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307788474

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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Pdf

A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Author : Frances Welch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476755502

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Rasputin by Frances Welch Pdf

Originally published: London: Short Books, 2014.

Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760550660

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Rasputin by Douglas Smith Pdf

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and guardian of the sickly heir to the throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. Even during his lifetime Rasputin was shrouded in myth and his true story remains obscure today. Douglas Smith's Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the true life of one of history's most alluring figures. Rasputin draws on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries and is the most thoroughly researched biography ever written. Demolishing the caricature of the holy devil, Smith's account presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. More than just the story of an extraordinary life, Rasputin offers a fascinating portrait of the twilight of Imperial Russia as it lurched towards catastrophe.

Author : Maria Rasputin,Patte Barham
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0491023715

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Rasputin by Maria Rasputin,Patte Barham Pdf

Author : Amos Barshad
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683355250

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No One Man Should Have All That Power by Amos Barshad Pdf

In this exploration of shadowy, behind-the-scenes operators, “each portrait provides an incisive dissection of the acquisition and maintenance of power” (The Nation). Journalist Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders—he’s interested in the dark figures who wield power from the shadows. And, as Barshad shows in No One Man Should Have All That Power, these master manipulators are not confined to political backrooms. They can be found anywhere—from Hollywood to drug cartels, recording studios, or the NFL. In this wide-ranging, insightful exploration of the phenomenon, Barshad takes readers into the lives of more than a dozen notorious figures, starting with Grigori Rasputin himself. The Russian mystic drank, danced, and healed his way into a position of power behind the last of the tsars. Based on interviews with well-known personalities like Scooter Braun (Justin Bieber’s manager), Alex Guerrero (Tom Brady’s trainer), and Sam Nunberg (Trump’s former aide) and original reporting on figures like Nicaragua’s powerful first lady Rosario Murillo and the Tijuana cartel boss known as “Narcomami,” Barshad investigates a variety of modern-day Raputins. He explores how they got there, how they wielded control, and what lessons we can take from them, including how to spot Rasputins in the wild.

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307266521

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The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore Pdf

"The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.

Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679645610

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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Pdf

A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Author : Teffi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590179970

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Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi Pdf

Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace. In this selection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide range of subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration, writers and writing. Like Nabokov, Platonov, and other great Russian prose writers, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding.